Automatic Formatting the C(Installation-)Drive

[zickenbaendiger]

How ist ist possible, that I have not to do it by hand. I want that´s it is done automaticly. - So that I realy have not to press any key after starting the CD.

brgds

ZB

[Aaron]

If you want to remove that prompt to "press any key to boot from CD" you will be in an infinite loop in text-mode setup.

[zickenbaendiger]

I don´t want to remove the "Press any key to boot from CD" !

I want to have the deleting of the c: - Partition automaticly without any prompting.

brgds

ZB

[maxXPsoft]

If you're talking about Unattended then

AutoPartition = 1 Installs Windows to the first available partition or simply delete this line

Repartition = Yes Deletes all partitions on the first drive and reformats the drive with NTFS.

in Winnt.sif set these keys

[Data]

AutoPartition = 1

[unattended]

Repartition = Yes

Is that what you wanted?

[zickenbaendiger]

Hi,

Yes - This is, what I wanted !!

Many Thx

Brgds

ZB

[medhunter]

that wil delete all partition!!!! well

I want something ;I think:very difficult:

I want to make unattended cd wich will quick format c: then continue as usual

without having to manually quick format c:

Is this possible?

I think not via winnt.sif.as I 've read ref.chm in deploy.cab.;as far as I know

but I got another idea , worked fine.BUT it will be ATTENDED ;unfortunately

but still want it via winnt.sif

stubborn;ain't I?

[zickenbaendiger]

Yes. I want that this Installation deletes the hole partition. But it does not work ;-(((

Brgds

ZB

[maxXPsoft]

medhunter I've looked myself

I can't find anything in Deploy either

Did find this though

DISKPART and FORMAT take approximately 90 seconds for large hard drives.

Here

CFGDISK.CMD

DISKPART /s DISKSCR.TXT
FORMAT C: /fs:ntfs /q /v:"" /y

DISKSCR.TXT

select disk 0
create partition primary
assign letter c

If there was a way to make it run

[zickenbaendiger]

Many thx. I´m going to try

brgds

ZB

[maxXPsoft]

Yes. I want that this Installation deletes the hole partition. But it does not work ;-(((

Brgds

ZB

Did you try removing the line AutoPartition = 1

Just completely delete it.

[vbussiro]

Hi,

I'm very intersted by the diskpart/quickformat method, and even more if it could be integrated in an unattend install.

So... Is it possible ? And where should I put these .cmd ?

Many thx... My Fully unattended recovery CD just wait it !